Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force - The federal government has supplied local police departments with military uniforms, weaponry, vehicles, and training.

"The Army is on record saying we do not require any additional M1A2s," Davis Welch, deputy director of the Army budget office, said this month. Sean Kennedy, director of research for the nonpartisan Citizens Against Government Waste, said Congress should listen when one of the military services says no to more quipment.
"When an institution as risk averse as the Defense Department says they have enough tanks, we can probably believe them," Kennedy said.

Man riding E-Bike is detained by what looks like the entire local police force. More and more extremely bored cops, that have evidently already solved all the local robberies and crimes, are called in for backup and arrive at the dangerous crime scene. Watch the hilarity ensue in this classic video from 2009.

Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.

Former police officer who was jailed for 10 years for police brutality, spoke for the first time of her conviction. "I just did what I was trained to do" Female cop describes ordeal, for setting police dog on a man trying to escape. The dog bit the man on the calf, but he never filed a complaint. Prince George County Police Department was being investigated after claims of excessive force had been leveled at the force. Complaints and a string of media reports prompted a federal investigation of excessive force by officers. But the investigation yielded no major convictions.

(Ohio) - Chances of motorists being pulled over or stopped in a Ohio checkpoint this weekend are very high. Cincinatti radio discusses how 88 Counties in Ohio are home to over 900 Police Departments. These include the State Highway Patrol, County Sheriffs, Township Police, City and Town Police. Each participating in this weekends Click-It or Ticket with extra patrols in order to recieve the dedicated Federal highway funding.